{"id":167602,"date":"2023-07-15T12:25:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T17:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/new-research-reveals-the-ancient-origins-of-earths-continents"},"modified":"2023-07-15T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T17:25:36","slug":"new-research-reveals-the-ancient-origins-of-earths-continents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/new-research-reveals-the-ancient-origins-of-earths-continents","title":{"rendered":"New research reveals the ancient origins of earth\u2019s continents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-reveals-the-ancient-origins-of-earths-continents3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research has unveiled the pivotal moment 3.2 billion years ago when Earth\u2019s continents began to form.<\/p>\n<p>New research conducted by scientists at Curtin University has shed new light on the formation of Earth\u2019s continents. This groundbreaking study, published in Earth Science Reviews, utilized Australia\u2019s abundant lead-zinc ore deposits and a comprehensive global database to establish a timeline for the Earth\u2019s evolution.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s lead researcher, Dr Luc Doucet from Curtin\u2019s Earth Dynamics Research Group, explained that their main objective was to determine when the continents as we know them today first took shape. To accomplish this, the team needed to understand how the Earth\u2019s mantle had\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dkosig\/iStock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research has unveiled the pivotal moment 3.2 billion years ago when Earth\u2019s continents began to form. New research conducted by scientists at Curtin University has shed new light on the formation of Earth\u2019s continents. This groundbreaking study, published in Earth Science Reviews, utilized Australia\u2019s abundant lead-zinc ore deposits and a comprehensive global database to establish [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}